Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

The Rio+20 Summit on sustainable development is still weeks away, and yet many already have proclaimed the event a failure. Few companies attended the original Earth Summit, and examples of company-NGO collaboration were few and far between. That verdict is based on outdated assumptions about the nature of change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

And Bill Gates announced he was shifting his priorities from software development to social impact by moving full time to his foundation. That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize. In the broader U.S. Lead collaborations, not just organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold. Furthermore, this allows the for-profit entity to develop and focus its competencies to sell and distribute products, as well as to conduct research and development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Here in the Guardian , two business professors offer a practical solution to all three problems using developing nations’ supply chains. When disaster strikes, the NGO would set up pop-up warehouses in those locations to channel relief directly from the manufacturers to the myriad micro sites. — for temporary warehouse sites.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

While much has already been written about this challenge in the developed world, there are also some important lessons to be learned from the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP). This technology has been shown to save water and labor, and to increase yield in a variety of crops. Groundbreaking solutions often never reach scale.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Resistant forms continue to thrive, and increased travel makes the global threat very real. Redefine ROI.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. All told, such African technology start-ups attracted $186 million in early stage funding last year. ” Many sectors are crowded in developed markets, but wide open at the frontiers. Like many promising new markets, African technology has been the subject of hype.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. They developed a system to insert these messages into normal data traffic and measure the response through South Africa's National AIDS Helpline.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Started by the NGO Ceres, as part of its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) initiative, the Climate Declaration is a broad statement of intent that acting on climate will be good for our economy and society. So what’s really new this year? Let’s dive in. The Big Picture. What Companies Are Doing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Develop an “objective, short, and upbeat” message that shows you’re “not a victim and you’re not stuck.” The day after John Denning* lost his job at a mobile technology company outside Boston, he took a long weekend in Maine. Case Study #1 Decide how you’ll frame your layoff in a positive way.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. ” But the Bank of England begs to differ , saying that the “vast majority of reserves are unburnable.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Obama administration issued new standards to double the fuel economy of cars and trucks , and the National Resources Defense Council (an NGO) proposed using the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from power plants by 25%. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

technology companies — that use China as a source of assembly, semi-manufactures or components have an additional vulnerability: their value chain. national security concerns because they incorporate Chinese technology into their end products. technology company needs. Doing so is neither necessarily easy nor cheap.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Anyone following developments in the African IT space from afar can be forgiven for thinking that it’s all about the consumer, and that applications and services for business lag far behind. Global business Information & technology IT management' 2. The Legacy Vacuum Can Be a Double-Edged Sword.

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